Top ten signs your job has you burnt out

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10. You're so tired that you now answer the phone on your nursing unit, "Hell."

9. Your friends give you a jingle to ask how you've been and you immediately scream, "Get off my !#@!%# back!"

8. Your nursing office garbage can IS your "in" box.

7. You wake up to discover that your bed is on fire, but go back to sleep because you just don't care.

6. You have so much on your mind that you've been forgetting to take bathroom breaks.

5. Visions of the upcoming weekend help you make it through Monday.

4. You don't set your alarm anymore because you know your pager will go off before the alarm does.

3. You leave for a party, instinctively pinning on your hospital ID badge.

2. Your Day Timer exploded a week ago.

...and the Number One sign that you are burned out because of work...

1. You fantasize about how relaxing it would be if you were in jail.

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Or you wake up startled from a dead sleep and you swear you heard hear, "ABC-123"

You forgot to put your underwear on.

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

....or you answer you home phone with the name of the unit you work on.

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Specializes in Neurology, Neurosurgerical & Trauma ICU.
You hear the vent alarms, while you're in the shower after work.

OMG....I thought I was the only one that heard the vent alarms and IV pumps beeping when I was at home! LOL :roll

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